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Marc Blitzstein (2 de marzo de 1905, Filadelfia-22 de enero de 1964, Fort-de-France, Martinica) fue un compositor, pianista y autor estadounidense.
Marcus Samuel Blitzstein (March 2, 1905 – January 22, 1964), was an American composer, lyricist, and librettist. He won national attention in 1937 when his pro- union musical The Cradle Will Rock , directed by Orson Welles , was shut down by the Works Progress Administration .
Marc Blitzstein war ein US-amerikanischer Komponist, der antikapitalistische Gesellschaftskritik mit Charme und Komik verband. Am erfolgreichsten war er mit Musicals „für die Orson-Welles-Truppe“. Er trat auch mit Opern und einer englischen Fassung von Brecht/Weills Dreigroschenoper hervor.
Composer Marc Blitzstein is best known for his 1937 agitprop musical theater work, The Cradle Will Rock and his English adaptation of The Threepenny Opera.
The Cradle Will Rock is a 1937 play in music by Marc Blitzstein. Originally a part of the Federal Theatre Project, it was directed by Orson Welles and produced by John Houseman. Set in Steeltown, U.S.A., the Brechtian allegory of corruption and corporate greed includes a panoply of social figures.
Born in Philadelphia in 1905, Marc Blitzstein showed musical promise as a pianist at a young age. He began composing lieder and short piano pieces in his teens, before going on to study composition at the Curtis Institute from 1924-1926, and then briefly in Europe with Nadia Boulanger and Arnold Schoenberg.
Marcus Samuel Blitzstein, born on March 2nd, 1905, was a composer from Philadelphia who revolutionized American musical theater in the 1930's. He studied with Arnold Schoenberg in Berlin and with Nadia Boulanger in Paris, and was very open about his belief that “true art was only for the intellectual elite.”. If it was accessible to the ...
